Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 113

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896

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EMMONS This is in all probability the family which settled in Ken- nebunkport during the early history of the town, judging from the fre- quent recurrence of similar christian names.

(I) John Emmons was living in the town of Kennebunkport in 1743. He married Eliz- abeth Dearing and had children: Ebenezer, see forward; Eliakim, born September, 1750; John ; George, Elizabeth.

(II) Ebenezer, eldest child of John and Elizabeth (Dearing) Emmons, married Polly Wildes. Their children were: Eliakim, see forward; Abigail Zarve; Polly Wildes; John; Elinor Carr; George, died in the army; Eliz- abeth, married Nehemiah Stone.

(III) Eliakim, eldest child of Ebenezer and Polly ( Wildes) Emmons, was born in Ken- nebunkport. He married Betsey Stone, born in Kennebunkport or Lyman, Maine, and they had children : Horace ; Leonard, see forward ; Ivory, Susan, Miranda, Caroline and Lizzie.

(IV) Leonard, second son of Eliakim and Betsey (Stone) Emmons, was born in Kenne- bunkport, 1825, died 1885. He was educated in the common schools of Lyman, Maine, his parents having removed to that town when he was very young. He learned the carpen- ter's trade, and followed this calling. Later he engaged in building operations, becoming

a contractor of note. For a time he resided in Biddeford and then removed to Saco, where he died. He erected some of the finest build- ings and blocks in Biddeford and Saco. He affiliated with the Republican party, and served as a member of the board of aldermen and councilmen in Saco, and when he resided in Biddeford was appointed deputy sheriff. He was a member of Marosbun Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of the Congregational church.

He married, in 1850, Sophia Tripp, born in Newry, Maine, in 1830, and they had children: Alton R .; Willis T., see forward; Fred. L.

(V) Willis T., son of Leonard and Sophia (Tripp) Emmons, was born in Biddeford, Maine, December 27, 1858. His preparatory education was acquired in the public schools of Biddeford and Saco, and he then matricu- lated at Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and in the same year engaged in the practice of his profession in Biddeford, where he remained for a short time, and removing thence to Saco. He is a Republican, and was appointed judge of the municipal court in Sa- co in 1883. He resigned this position in 1890 in favor of one in the custom house in Portland, as deputy collector under Colonel Dow. This he held for five years. While in Saco he served as a member of the board of aldermen and councilmen, and as city audi- tor. He was three years mayor of Saco, 1887- 88-89. He also filled the following official positions with credit to himself and benefit to the community: County attorney, two terms; clerk of the courts from 1899 to the present time. He is connected with the fol- lowing fraternal organizations: Saco Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; York Royal Arch Chapter; Biddeford Commandery; Maine Council; Kora Temple of Lewiston; Saco Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Horeb Encampment ; Canton J. H. Dearborn, of Biddeford; Mystic Tie Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Saco; charter member of the Grange at Alfred, Maine. He married (first) August, 1878, Annah V., daughter of Andrew J. Leavitt. She died November 21, 1901, leaving one son, Harold L., born December 27, 1879. He was educated in the schools of Saco, Thornton Academy and Harvard Den- tal College. Is now practising dentistry in Saco. Mr. Emmons married (second) June 30, 1906, Lillian M., daughter of G. M. Tar- box, of Saco.

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JOSE Although this name does not ap- pear among the names of the pion- eer settlers of New Hampshire, yet it is one of the early names among those ad- venturous and hardy men who settled on the coast and islands while the Isle of Shoals was in its glory.

(I) Christopher Jose lived at the Isle of Shoals, and was a constable there in 1656, and from the Isle went to Portsmouth, and died about 1678. By his wife Jane he had Richard, Thomas, Joanna, Margaret or Mary, John, Jane, Samuel and Mary.

(II) Richard, eldest son of Christopher and Jane Jose, was born November 10, 1660. In August, 1699, the new governor-general, the Earl of Bellomont, published his commission in New Hampshire, and among other official changes that took place Richard Jose was made sheriff of New Hampshire in place of William Ardell. This position he held until his death, September 24, 1707, "after long sickness with Gout, Dropsie, &c." He mar- ried (first) October 16, 1683, Hannah, daugh- ter of Richard Martin, and had Joanna, Jane, Mary, Richard, Martin, Sarah. He married (second) Esther, daughter of Major Richard Waldron, of Dover, New Hampshire. Her first husband was Henry Elkins, her second, Abraham Lee, her third, Richard Jose, and she had a fourth whose name is not pre- served.

(III) Martin, second son of Richard and Hannah (Martin) Jose, was born December 28, 1700, and was in Scarborough as early as 1729. He had a family of four sons and two daughters.

(IV) John, supposed to have been a son of Martin and Hannah (Martin) Jose, was a soldier in the revolution, being a private in Captain Simeon Brown's company, Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment; enlisted July I, 1778; service six months, nine days, in Rhode Island; company discharged at East Green- wich, Rhode Island; regiment raised in York and Essex counties ; also same company and regiment, muster rolls dated East Greenwich, September 17, September 24, October 24, No- vember 6 and November 14, 1778; enlistment to expire January 1, 1779; reported on fur- lough on roll dated November 6, 1778. He married Abigail Milliken, of Scarborough, and settled in Buxton. Their children born there were: Abigail, Martin, John, Hannah, Richard, Sally, Alexander, Mehitable, Josiah (died young), and Josiah.

(V) Alexander, fourth son of John and

Abigail (Milliken) Jose, was born in Bux- ton, December II, 1780. He spent his youth and middle life in Buxton, but in his age he removed to Guildhall, Vermont, where he died aged eighty-three. He was a man whose in- dustry and good habits made him a respected citizen. He married Sally, daughter of Thom- as Emery, of Buxton. Their seven children, all born in Buxton, were: Hannah, Abigail, Marke E., Charles E., Horatio N., Sarah and Emily.

(VI) Horatio Nelson, fourth son of Alex- ander and Sally (Emery) Jose, was born in Buxton, March 18, 1819, and died in Port- land, October 23, 1892, aged seventy-three. He passed his youth on the ancestral farm and was educated in the district schools. At the age of fourteen he went to Portland, and was a clerk in a carpet store until he was twenty-one. He was successively a drygoods merchant, a real estate dealer and a railroad man, and was successful in each of his voca- tions. He held offices connected with banks and railroads. For more than forty years he was identified with the leading financial, com- mercial and social interests of the city. He was a member of the First Parish Church (Congregational), and was one of the found- ers of the Maine General Hospital. In poli- tics he was a Republican. Horatio N. Jose married (first) August 30, 1843, Nancy B. Hooper, who was born in Charlestown, Mas- sachusetts, April 17, 1820, and died in Port- land, October 5, 1889, daughter of Thomas Hooper. Their children were: I. Horatio N., born March 27, 1845. 2. Carrie E., born May 18, 1848 .. 3. Helen N., born January 25, 1853, married H. H. D. Pierce, and had two children, Benjamin and Horatio. 4. Jessica H., born November 8, 1860, married Lincoln Cummings. Horatio Nelson married (sec- ond), 1891, Harriet N. Cammett, who was born in Portland, November 19, 1825, daugh- ter of Dudley and Betsey (Williams) Cam- mett, and the widow of Levi Weatherbee, of Massachusetts. Mr. Cammett resided all his life in Portland, where he accumulated a comfortable fortune in the manufacture of pumps and blocks. The children of Dudley and Betsey (Williams) Cammett were: I. Elizabeth Williams. 2. Margaret. 3. Charles Williams. 4. Harriet N. 5. John, married Mary Elizabeth Harris. 6. Abbie Ellen, mar- ried Dr. James R. Lunt, and had : James C., married Agnes McIntosh, and had one child, Paul Cammett ; and Frank Dudley, married Alice Porter Storer, and had two children,

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Dudley Cammett and Alison Storer. 7. Mary Jewett, married Franklin Fox, and had one child, Margaret Elizabeth. 8. Caroline.

Charles Adams Paine was born

PAINE May 23, 1853, at Eastport, Maine, and died in 1904. He was prepared for college at the Eastport high school and studied at Brown's University. He was in the wholesale grocery business at East- port, and was a very active Republican, repre- senting his ward' in the Maine legislature. In 1896 he was appointed by President Mc- Kinley postmaster of Eastport, and reap- pointed by President Roosevelt. February 9, 1881, he was married to Jenny R., child of Charles C. and Mary N. (Wadsworth) Norton. She is now postmistress of Eastport, succeeding her late husband in office. (Her lineage is given in Wadsworth family, in this work.) Children: I. Irene P., born June 10, 1882. 2. Charles B., August 21, 1883; who is in the University of Maine and intends to devote himself to the profession of civil en- gineer. 3. Norton P., March 2, 1885. 4 . Carroll N., July, 2, 1886, died in 1891. 5. Lloyd, March 2, 1896.

BEAN The families of Bean, Bain and Bayne, as the surname is variously spelled, are undoubtedly descended from the old Scotch clan Vean. In the Gaelic the letters b and v are interchangeable, so that Vean and Bean are the same name, only differently spelled. The origin of the name is a matter of conjecture, some authorities main- taining it to be derived from the place of residence of the clan, "beann," which in the Gaelic language signifies mountain; a more strongly supported opinion is that it is derived from the fair complexion of the progenitor of the clan, "bean," meaning white or fair, and frequently used by the Highlanders to dis- tinguish a person of fair complexion, as olive, black or swarthy were used to designate one of dark complexion. The clan Vean, or, as oftener designated in Scotch history, Mac- Bean, was one of the tribes of the Chatli, and occupied the Lochaber territory some time previous to 1300 A. D. Three distinct families of this blood came to America-the Bains to Virginia, the Banes to Maine, and the Beans to New Hampshire. Many of the early colonial records were destroyed by fire and the successive raids made by hostile In- dians, and it cannot be ascertained with cer- tainty in what year or ship the Bean immi- grant reached the shores of the new country.

Warren Bean, doubtless a descendant of the old New England family of the same name, married Sarah Swett, of Bethel, Maine, and they had children: Henry W., Otis R., Inez A., Leon L., Ervin A. and Guy C.

Ervin A., fourth son and fifth child of Warren and Sarah (Swett) Bean, was born in Bethel, Maine, January 15, 1877. At the tender age of nine years he had lost both of his parents and was bound out to James Crockett, of Norway, Maine, with whose fam- ily he made his home during the next seven or eight years. Later on he hired himself out to do farm work and was thus employed at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. When volunteers were called for to fill the ranks of the American army he enlisted as a private in Company D, of the First Maine Volunteer Infantry, and went into camp with the regiment at Chickamauga, Georgia. There he fell a victim to typhoid fever of such ma- lignant type that he was believed to have died from its effects, and was carried out of the hospital tent and placed on the ground at the back of it, for burial on the following day. During the night a heavy rain fell upon the presumably dead soldier, restored him to consciousness, broke the dreadful fever, and his ultimate and complete recovery was the result. From his early youth Mr. Bean has been of industrious and frugal habits, saving of his earnings, and it is owing to these quali- ties and to his determination to succeed that he was enabled to make his way in the world without aid from anyone else, and is now a prosperous business man. While still a boy at work on the farm he made a point of saving the greater part of his wages, and the small capital thus secured he joined with that of his brother and invested it in a clothing business in Freeport, Maine. After his re- turn from army service, completely broken in health, he felt unable to resume hard manual labor, and therefore became actively connected with the business in which he and his brother were interested. Later he purchased the in- terest of his brother in the concern, con- tinued it as sole proprietor until 1905, then sold out with profit and in the following year bought his brother's clothing establishment in Auburn, Maine. He is proprietor of this business at the present time, and that he is a thoroughly capable and more than reason- ably successful business man is shown by the fact that during the first year under his man- agement the sales account of the store in- creased over the last preceding year more than seven thousand dollars. Mr. Bean's po-

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litical affiliations are with the Republican party, and he is a Knight of Pythias, a Red Man and a Knight of the Golden Eagle.

(For previous generations see William Chadbourne I.) (V) William (3), eld-

CHADBOURNE est child of William (2) Chadbourne, was

born July 30, 1714. He probably served in the Louisburg Expedition of 1745. He lived in Berwick. He married Phebe - -, who administered his estate in 1761. Children : I. William, see forward. 2. Francis. 3. Humphrey. 4. Catherine, married Daniel Smith; five children; died September 19, 1777. 5. Mary, married Jacob Hodsdon. 6. Phebe, married Peaslee Morrill, who was grandfather of Hons. Anson P. and Lot M. Morrill, both governors of Maine. 7. Jo- anna, married Isaac Morrill.

(VI) William (4), baptized September 9, 1744, eldest son of William (3) Chadbourne, married Sarah Weymouth, and among their children was Francis, see forward.

(VII) Francis, son of Wiliam (4) Chad- bourne, was born June 5, 1755. He lived, died and was buried at North Berwick. He mar- ried (first) Olive Neal, born June 10, 1761, and (second) Betsey Staples. Children by Olive Neal: I. Patience, born March 6, 1778, married Humphrey Ayers, of Cornish; eight children, among whom was Rev. Francis C., a Methodist minister. 2. Isaiah, born March 12, 1780, drowned at sea. 3. Joanna, born August 14, 1782, married Benjamin Hurd, of North Berwick; children : Rufus, Frank Ben- jamin, Isaiah, drowned in 1849. 4. Francis, born April 7, 1785, married Hannah Gardner ; children : Henry William, Sylvia, Rebecca and Susannah; Rebecca married Nathaniel Thomp- son, and their son Albert C. was postmaster of Lowell, 1904. 5. William, born August 18, 1787, married Susan Brackett. 6. Humphrey, born December 4, 1789, married Joanna Pray ; children : Silas, Sarah, married George An- derson, of Concord, New Hampshire. 7. Sarah, born March 20, 1792, married Ed- mund Neal. 8. Olive, born July 22, 1794, married William Perkins; children : Luther, Sarah, Salome, Paul, Olive, William, Huldah A., married Lewis Wentworth Perkins (see Perkins III); Francis C., Gooch, and two who died in infancy. 9. Silas, born July 8, 1796, married Tabitha Nowell. 10. Paul, born January 13, 1799, killed by accident, 1821. II. Isaiah, born March 24, 1801, died June 18, 1853, married Pendora Dennett ;

two children. Olive (Chadbourne) Perkins, mother of these children, died September 3, 1822.

FREY John Frey, whose father was also named John, was born in Bavaria in the year 1838. He received a good education in the schools of his native town. On arriving at a suitable age, he was apprenticed to a shoemaker of the town and in due course became a finished workman. He was appointed and served as local marshal of the town. In 1857 Mr. Frey sailed for the United States, where he landed in New York City. He remained there two months, then moved eastward, finally settling in Bangor, Maine. Here he followed his trade with suc- cess until 1897, when he retired from active business life. He married, in Bangor, Cather- ine Carr. Three children were born of this union : Charles Henry, William H. and Jen- nie Florence.

Charles Henry, eldest son of John and Catherine (Carr) Frey, was born in Bangor, Maine, September 21, 1866. He received his education in the schools of Bangor, and in 1879 began the work that finally became his settled and regular business, in which he has been very successful. Frey's is known far and near as stated in 1879. Mr. Frey, in 1887, purchased the business and has made it one of the most popular restaurants in the city. The business at 30 Central street consists of lunch, cafe and ladies' and gentle- men's public and private dining rooms. Mr. Frey is also one of the popular caterers of Bangor and has a good business in that line. Associated with him is his brother William A., who is equally capable and efficient. He is an active member of Bangor Lodge No. 244, B. P. O. E. Mr. Frey married, January 2, 1887, Georgia A., daughter of Robert Smith, of Carmel. William A. Frey was born in Bangor, 1872. He was educated in the Bangor schools. He began working in the restaurant with which he is still con- nected when but a boy, and has been a most potent factor in maintaining its high stand- ing and popularity. He is a member of the Elks and Knights of Pythias. He married Agnes Robinson.

Huddersfield in the West Rid- GARNER ing of Yorkshire, in the valley of the Colne, is sixteen miles southwest from Leeds. It is a place of con- siderable antiquity, and is mentioned in

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Doomsday. It is the seat of extensive woolen manufactories. This is the ancestral home of the Garners.

(I) William Garner was born in Hudders- field, England. He married Amelia Ash- mont. Children : Allen, John, Charles and Regina.

(II) Allen, son of William and Amelia (Ashmont) Garner, began his career in Hud- dersfield, England, in 1840. He married Mary D., daughter of Captain James D. Jordan, of Lewiston, Maine. Children: I. Olive, wife of W. O. Winfield, bobbin manufacturer, Kezar Falls, Maine. 2. Mary Evangeline, wife of M. W. M. Chellis, superintendent of Cornish and Kezar Falls Light and Power Company. 3. William Allen, see forward. 4. Lawrence R. 5. Albert. 6 .. Alvin, who died in infancy. Mr. Garner is a man of fine executive ability in his line Of chosen work, and knows the mill business from a to z. He has filled every position from bobbin boy to agent and manager. The success of the man- ufacturing plant established at Kezar Falls in 1881 is largely due to his efforts. His father died when he was six years old, and he came to America with his mother in 1856, settling in Lewiston, Maine. He is a man greatly esteemed by his associates in business, beloved by his employees, and highly respected as a · townsman. He is a man of moral upright- ness, unquestioned integrity of character, and of unyielding perseverance.

(III) William Allen, son of Allen and Mary D. (Jordan) Garner, was born June 5, 1876, the centennial year, in Lewiston, Maine. When he was six years old his people changed their residence to Kezar Falls, Maine, and here he studied in the schools of Porter and at North Parsonsfield Academy. After serving a short apprenticeship in the Kezar Falls mills, of which his father was manager, he took a specialty course in the textile school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He returned to the mill again, beginning at the very bot- tom, and arose in successive promotions until he is now manager. He knows the practical part thoroughly as he knows the theoretical. He is a thorough-going business man of the aggressive type. He is treasurer and secretary of the Cornish and Kezar Falls Light and Power Company. He is a Republican of the Roosevelt stamp. His townspeople elected him to the school board, of which he was an active and valuable member. He is a mem- ber of Drummond Lodge, F. and A. M., of Parsonsfield; of Ossipee Valley Lodge, K. of P., of Porter. He married, October 27, 1901,

Bertha May, daughter of William Ridlon, of Boston, Massachusetts. His children are : Ruth Evelyn, born January 18, 1904, and Mary D., who died in infancy.

HOBBS Daniel Andrews Hobbs, a de- scendant of Henry Hobbs, of Dover, resided in Waterboro and was an industrious farmer. He married Har- riet Ann Sanborn, born January 9, 1825, daughter of Israel and Almira (Blake) San- born. Her grandfather, Joseph Sanborn, who was baptized in Hampton, New Hampshire, December 15, 1768, settled in Waterboro. The maiden name of his wife was Betty Hill, and their only son, Daniel, was born in Water- boro, August 5, 1795. Daniel Sanborn died October 30, 1863, and Almira, his wife, who was born in Wakefield, New Hampshire, Oc- tober 29, 1798, died October 25, 1880. They were the parents of twelve children. Mrs. Hobbs became the mother of two sons : George Henry and Willis Edgar.

(II) George Henry, son of Daniel and Har- riet A. (Sanborn) Hobbs, was born in Water- boro, September II, 1851. As a youth he assisted his father in carrying on the home- stead farm, and when a young man learned the carpenter's trade. He subsequently lo- cated in Alfred and is still residing there, fol- lowing his trade in connection with agricul- ture. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of Saco Valley Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of West Buxton. In 1871 he married Lucy Anna Dudley, born in Hollis, Maine, September 10, 1851. They have had four sons : Frederick Andrews, George Franklin, Maynard Ashton, Norman B., who died in infancy.

(III) Frederick Andrews, son of George H. and Lucy A. (Dudley) Hobbs, was born in Hollis, July 26, 1875. He was graduated from the University of Maine with the class of 1896, and entering the educational field, taught school in Alfred two years, going thence to Westbrook, where he taught for three years. While thus employed he studied law with Samuel M. Came and the late Hon. John B. Donovan, both of Alfred, and was admitted to the bar May 12, 1900. In 1898 he enlisted at Westbrook as a private in Com- pany M, First Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, for service in the Spanish-American war; was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant at Chickamauga and mustered out as such at the close of hostilities. In Decem- ber, 1900, he established himself as an at- torney and counsellor at law in South Ber-

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wick, and has built up a profitable general practice. He was elected county attorney and is still serving in that responsible capacity, dis- playing marked ability in handling the county's legal business. Politically he acts with the Republican party. He is a member of Fra- ternal Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, of Alfred; Unity Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of South Berwick; Maine Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Saco; and Brad- ford Commandery, Knights Templar, of Bid- deford. He also affiliates with Olive Branch Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Agamenticus Encampment, Quamphegan Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Newichawannock Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, all of South Berwick, and with the Eagles in Port- land. In March, 1902, Mr. Hobbs married Cassandra M. Aspinwall, daughter of William H. and Eliza Aspinwall, of Salmon Falls, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs have one daughter, Pauline Dudley, born January 3, 1907.

SMILEY This family were of Scotch origin. The first of the name are said to have arrived in New England about the same time, and settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and one of them at least, John Smiley, remained there and was the progenitor of the Massachusetts fam- ily. Francis Smiley, brother of John, went to New Hampshire at an early date.

Francis Smiley, emigrant ancestor of the Maine line, was born in England (or Scot- land), 1689, and came with others of his fam- ily to America, the exact date of arrival not known. Perhaps he remained some time at Haverhill, Massachusetts, where his brother John located, but he is recorded as having bought a farm at Windham, New Hampshire, November 3, 1743, where he resided, and where he died March 16, 1763, "aged sev- enty-four." In 1746 he was appointed tithing man, and in 1749 held the office of con- stable. The name of his wife is not learned. It is supposed that he had three sons: Will- iam, David and Hugh, who removed to Maine.

From the emigrant ancestor named above was descended Reuel William Smiley, son of David Smiley. He married Laura R. Webber. Edward Howes, son of Reuel and Laura (Webber) Smiley, was born in Winslow, Maine, August 17, 1852. He was educated at the public schools, Waterville Classical Insti- tute, and Colby University, graduating with the class of 1875. The following year he entered upon the vocation of teacher, which

position he has successfully filled for more than twenty years. He was principal of the high school at Waterville, Maine, 1875-84; classical teacher in high school, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1884-90; and high school, Hartford, Connecticut, 1890-95; principal of high school at Hartford since 1895. Mr. Smi- ley, though not prominent in Maine politics, is a Republican. He married, at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 1877, Ella L. Hutchinson, of Winslow, Maine, who was born June 2, 1853. Their son, Ralph William, born 1883, was graduated from Harvard University, class of 1907.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 113

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 896

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896